The lefty media is taking aim at Alberta again...why am I not surprised? They must get the heebie jeebies just thinking about Alberta. They better look closely at the MLA they are targeting, because it would be an easy HRC case to claim hate speech against him.
Alberta Culture Minister defends criticism of home-grown television
“I sit here as a government representative for film and television in the province of Alberta and I look at what we produce and if we’re honest with ourselves, why do I produce so much shit? Why do I fund so much crap?,” Lindsay Blackett, Minister of Culture and Community Spirit, told an industry panel at the Banff World Television Festival. “Why aren’t broadcasters picking up more Canadian content? It’s because Canadian content isn’t what it should be.”
Banff? Right that center for the Arts that is internationally recognized. Subsidized by Albertans for garbage like this:
Artist: Kiss and Tell
Confronting Bodies: Ken Kowalski, Alberta Deputy Premier and others
Date of Action: 14 November 1992
Specific Location:
Description of Artwork: ""Much Sense: Erotics and Life" was an exhibition at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts. As part of the exhibition, the Vancouver-based performance troupe Kiss and Tell presented "True Inversions," a performance work with lesbian themes and simulated woman-woman sex.
Description of Incident: A nationally syndicated column by Rick Bell in the Alberta "Report of 7" (December 1992) blasted the Banff Centre for spending tax dollars on the series. "Banff hosted the latest in subsidized 'alienation' and lesbian porn... As usual, the money for this free-admission spectacle came from the empty coffers of indebted governments." (Bell/Alberta Report). The article touched off a year long controversy on arts spending in Alberta. Alberta Deputy Premier Ken Kowalski fumed, "Every once in a while they do some of these things that are God-awful in my humble opinion. This is the third (controversial show) I've had to deal with, this abhorrent lesbian show." (Edmonton Sun) Alberta Conservative government officials Dianne Mirosh (community development minister) and Stockwell Day (labor minister) joined the anti-arts funding fracas. Statements by these officials in the national press mobilized the Alberta arts community in a show of support through protest rallies, letter writing campaigns, etc.
Results of Incident: "Provincial funding forms were amended to include a paragraph that said funding could be pulled from any particular project that the government deemed inappropriate." Galleries in Alberta whose presentations came under attack during this controversy did not experience a cut in funding. "It seems to me that because the arts community was so united and so angry and so public, the government did back off. It is always good to see that people actually do have some power in these processes." (Persimmon Blackbridge of Kiss and Tell in an interview with Kerry Kilmartin/Artichoke)
Source: The Banff Centre for the Arts
Lets have a protest anytime your funding is cut off. How about taxpayers start protesting our hard earned dollars going to garbage like the above.
What really takes the cake, is that campers can't drink in Banff anymore.
So, we have radical lesbian fake sex acts funded by taxpayers and allowed in Banff because its "art", but don't you dare bring a beer to your campsite. Do lefties even see how ridiculous they are getting? Has common sense died?
H/T General Brock
1 comment:
My daughter (17) is an artist. Her specialty is mostly watercolour/mixed media paintings, though she's also a photographer and lately she's been experimenting with stop motion animation. This summer, for the first time, she is taking part in a large art festival with her own booth to try and sell her paintings. Her goal is to make a career of her art in some way.
She is also adamant on never, ever, accepting government money in the process. She reads about these "art" displays and is disgusted that public money is being used to fund them. The idea that self-described artists get tax payer money to produce stuff no one would be willing to buy offends her. She finds the art community in general incredibly pretentious and obnoxious. Frankly, she's got more raw talent in her little finger than many of these controversial "artists" can even comprehend - and that's not just a mother's boasting! Unfortunately, with so-called artists like these defining what is or isn't "good" art, people with real talent and skill tend to fall by the wayside.
Art is subjective, of course. She's a believer in the free market. She knows that, if she can't make a living with her art, she will just find some other way to pay the bills.
Rather different from my left-leaning artist friends that are all up in arms over any cuts to art funding, even if those cuts are to redundant services.
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